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Will come back on my laptop to answer -- but man did I mourn the first nap for that reason!! It is way easier now that he is fully on one nap and its usually 2 hours

We just transitioned at about 15 months. She had been taking forever to fall asleep for her naps so they were getting pushed way back towards bedtime. We pretty much just went cold turkey and skipped her 9am nap. She was exhausted for a week but we did lots of activities. She had been napping at 9 and 2 so first I tried to do a nap at 12 and the. I pushed it back to 1 over a week or so because it works better with meals, activities, etc. One day last week she woke up super early. We had a playgroup at 11 and I knew she would be a disaster so I let her sleep from 10-10:45 or so. Other than that we haven't really wavered.

Between 7&8 wake up and sippy of milk
8:30 - breakfast
9 - I put her in the p&p with some obnoxious toys that she doesn't usually get to play with while I run & shower. Then I bring her upstairs while I get dressed. She likes to pretend to brush her hair with me. I get her dressed after me.
10 - I try to get out for some activity. Playgroup, play date, grocery store, whatever.
12:30 - home for lunch
1 to 3 (sometimes 4!) nap
4 - snack and then play and wait for DH to get home.
6:30 - dinner
6:45 bath
7:15 - bed

Phew! I still miss the AM nap, but the whole thing has been better than I expected. Good luck!

What I would do is gradually shift that morning nap a bit later- try for 10am, then push it to 11am, then hopefully he will get used to being up for a longer period in the morning. What happened for us was once she started doing 1 nap, after a bit, she started sleeping in later anyways, so instead of waking up at 6 and napping at 10, she was waking up around 7/7:30 and being able to make it until noon. It was a gradual process though. I had to just push my LO to stay up later in the morning, because I knew she would refuse to take a second nap. You could do an early bedtime for awhile too.

Does he get cranky and grumpy around 9:30, or is he just yawning/seems tired? During that "first nap" time, I would give some snacks for a a little pick me up and some energy. Do some low key activities as well.

I am not a SAHM, but I do stay home on Wednesdays...I usually shower at night, makes things a ton easier!

Miss A dropped to a single nap at nine months because she kept pushing her second nap later and later till she was still napping at 1730! I found the best thing to help the transition was to get out of the house in the mornings so that she's not him thinking about sleep

Since dropping to one nap we wakeup between 6-7am (6am is morning!) and she nurses down for her nap at around 11ish but sometimes as early as 1030 or as late as 1230. Naps used to be anywhere from 1.5-3.5 hours but these days they're anywhere from 1-2.5 hours.

As for our routine, A and I usually hang out together in bed till about 8am when she gets dressed and we have breakfast then I get dressed and we take the dog out for his walk. It's usually about 0930-1000 when I get in the shower and A is usually able up entertain herself while I'm in the bathroom.

I try to get as much done as possible while A is still awake so I can use nap time to relax!

@hilsy85: sorry...I totally wasn't clear in my post! When we transitioned I started with 4.5-4.75 hrs before nap and 5 hours between nap and bedtime. His one nap wasn't super long so we did early bedtime for awhile (5:30-6pm) and he always made up sleep overnight.

The crying in the early morning is super hard but it will help make the transition easier!! He will learn soon enough that 5:30 is not a fun time to wake up!

@hilsy85: yes, i meant push the first nap and forget about the second nap...sorry i wasn't clear! eventually it will get to a normal afternoon nap time and he will adjust to a longer wake time in the morning.

@hilsy85: Ok, so I know L has higher sleep needs than my banshee but this is what we did. He just stopped taking his second nap, no matter what. So I didn't put him down for nap #1 when I normally would, and just waited until he started acting really tired. For us, that was him waking around 7 and then getting tired around 10:30-11., which was really early for one nap. It was only an hour for a few weeks and I was freaking! He was going to bed around 6 on those days. Slowly but surely, he didn't act tired until later and it slowly inched back and lengthened at the same time, until now when it is usually around 1 and usually for 2 hours.

At that point when we transitioned, he was still day nursing so I just shuffled lunch/snacks/nursing around so he was always going down with a full tummy. This is what our day looks like now:

7 - wake/nurse
8-breakfast
9- I get ready while he runs around the room (I started showering at night.. and using dry shampoo;))
10-11:45 out of the house!
12:15 lunch
1-3 nap
3:30 snack
6 dinner
7:15-7:30 nurse/bed

@hilsy85: um yeah I didn't mention that I DID try moving it back 10-15 minutes.. and it was a huge failure. he was so unhappy when I was pushing him past his tired limit, and then napped for like.. 45 minutes. torture. I thought we were doomed forever since he has always been a short sleeper, but lo and behold after two weeks or so it started lengthening just like others said happened for them! We have a few off days here and there that it's less than 2 hours but that is now more the exception than the rule (something I NEVER thought would happen). So have faith!

@hilsy85: I promise! Like I said we did a 6 pm bedtime for a few weeks until he caught up. It felt like forever